More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. The expression divine service should cease to be applied to church attendance and be applied instead to good deeds.
  2. The highest point a poor brain can reach from experience is the ability to find out the weaknesses of superior people.
  3. Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundr…
  4. The intercourse with reasonable people is advisable to everybody because, in this way, a blockhead can become wise by imitation, for the gr…
  5. Some people read because they are too lazy to think.
  6. The late M. who had a Catholic maid, once told me entirely bona fide: This person is a Catholic, it is true, but she is an honest, good sou…
  7. Popularizing should always be done in such a manner that one would elevate people by it. If one stoops down, one should always take care of…
  8. The preaching in the churches does not make the lightning rods on them unnecessary.

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